Cultural participation

Cultural participation in Malta will be the main topic of discussion at a national symposium being held later this month. The symposium, aimed at cultural managers, policymakers, researchers, arts marketeers and producers in the arts, heritage and media sectors – will present the main findings from a nationwide survey held in 2016. The study commissioned by Arts Council Malta (ACM) as part of its research programme, builds upon the 2011 survey and delves deeper into current issues of cultural participation. The main findings from the survey will be presented during a half-day symposium being held at the Valletta Campus Theatre, Valletta (ex-MITP) on June 21. The following day, an ACMlab session led by researchers from Morris Hargreaves McIntyre (MHM), an international cultural strategy and research agency, will discuss audience segmentation based on their report targeted towards cultural operators. The findings will also be collated in a number of publications commissioned by ACM – including a selection of critical essays by 10 contributors with expertise from different fields. “The new study will reveal to what extent the arts do in fact form part of the lives of the Maltese...